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12 November 1874 • Vernon, Conn.
(MS: CU-MARK, UCCL 01148)
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Vernon, half past 11.

Livy darling, we started from the end of east river bridge, East Hartford, 2 hours & a half ago.1 Vernon is 11 miles from Hartford. The day is simply gorgeous—perfectly [matchless. And ]the talk! Our jaws have wagged ceaselessly, & every now & then our laughter does wake up the old woods—for there is nothing to restrain it, there being nobody to hear it.

All ready! Mark time—right wheel—forward—March! And now we swing along again.

Good bye my old darling.

Sam

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1 In his 17 November journal entry, Twichell noted that his pedestrian excursion with Clemens began at “8½ o’clock,” when they “left our house in his carriage” and “rode through the E. Hartford bridge, and then took to our feet—I carrying a little bag and he a basket of lunch.” Their itinerary, “furnished me by an ancient stage driver” through N. H. Andrews, the Hartford passenger agent of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad Company, was to take them along the old stage route to Boston: in Connecticut through East Hartford, Buckland, Vernon, Tolland, Westford, Ashford, North Ashford, West Woodstock, and New Boston, and then in Massachusetts through Blackstone, West Sutton, Northbridge, Upton, Holliston, Needham, Newton, and Brighton (Twichell, 1:12–13; Geer 1874, 27, 296).

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2 Olivia had provided several such envelopes, to make it easier for Clemens to write to her while traveling.



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MS, Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley (CU-MARK).

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